Train

There was a little bit of niceness at work yesterday. I was on the scanners with a coworker who wasn't feeling comfortable operating the machine by herself just yet. She had been paired with a more experienced person but I replaced them after I got there. Well, even though I'm new at it and barely know much of what I'm donig myself, I pretty much ended up training her. And she said (along with a couple others hired at the same time who were on nearby machines) that I was really good at it. That made me feel nice in a way. I have so many feeling of failure when it comes to my teaching stint. I know I wasn't completely terrible, there were some things I was pretty good even though I struggled with others. Anyway, nice to be reminded. And it even made me miss teaching in a weird way, just a little bit. Not much else. I did wanna bring back just a little point from my pseudo job interview on Friday. First, when the whole group was in that conference room, the whole thing had a feeling like we were being sold timeshares or something. Then when they started going over the benefits the company offers to its prospective clients, I started having flashbacks to faculty meetings where similar reps were trying to sell us the same sort of stuff and my brain reverted back to that primordial state of boredom and the feeling my precious time is being wasted. Also, I was probably being a little kind in my last post. I said it was merely reminiscent of a pyramid scheme, while on reflection it's probably a straight up pyramid scheme. At least in the business structure. Anyway, that's it for now.